APHG Final Vocab Review

Question 1

What do you call remodeling of downtown areas by middle class people that pushes out the poor?

Accepted Answer

gentrification

Question 2

A barrier between where different languages are spoken is called a/an?

Accepted Answer

isogloss

Question 3

What does it mean to fallow?

Accepted Answer

to allow land to rest so that nutrients can replenish

Question 4

What do you call the massive migration of people in MDCs from the cities to suburbs?

Accepted Answer

suburbanization

Question 5

What is Zionism?

Accepted Answer

the movement of Jews to their ancestral homeland in Israel

Question 6

Which of the following methods of development involves private investment from TNCs?

Accepted Answer

FDI

Question 7

What is the east Asian religious practice that emphasizes honoring fathers and proper ettiquete

Accepted Answer

Confusianism

Question 8

Which term below means the unique collection of flavors from a region's plant and wildlife?

Accepted Answer

terroir

Question 9

Which of the following would be the best example of a buffer state?

Accepted Answer

Poland during the Cold War

Question 10

Multi-national states are like multi-ethnic states, except that it's people have a tradition of

Accepted Answer

self-determination

Question 11

Which of these is a fundamentalist Muslim group trying to seize control of Afghanistan?

Accepted Answer

the Taliban

Question 12

Which is NOT including when calculating the HDI of a country?

Accepted Answer

unemployment rate

Question 13

Where would you find right-to-work laws?

Accepted Answer

Alabama

Question 14

Which of the following said that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 15

Under which sector of the economy would you find information services and research?

Accepted Answer

Quarternary

Question 16

If an immigrant has lost all connection to his/her homeland's culture, it could be said that...

Accepted Answer

the immigrant is assimilated

Question 17

Which type of program involves severely cutting back spending in order to reduce deficits?

Accepted Answer

austerity

Question 18

What does it mean for something to be "kosher"?

Accepted Answer

to be prepared according to Jewish dietary custom

Question 19

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia make up the ____________ states.

Accepted Answer

Caucasus

Question 20

The system of mass production using assembly lines is sometimes referred to as...

Accepted Answer

Fordism

Question 21

What do you call the merging of different religions or schools of thought?

Accepted Answer

syncretism

Question 22

The map below is a good example of what?

Accepted Answer

gerrymandering

Question 23

What do you call an attempt to explain the origin of the universe?

Accepted Answer

cosmogony

Question 24

The map below helps illustrate which model?

Accepted Answer

core periphery model

Question 25

What do you call a factory that has been moved into Mexico to save labor costs?

Accepted Answer

maquiladora

Question 26

Which stage of the Agricultural Revolution coinsides with the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

2nd

Question 27

The Romance languages are a _____________ within the Indo European Language _____________.

Accepted Answer

branch, family

Question 28

Which of the following would be a good example of nationalism?

Accepted Answer

Americans standing for the Pledge of Allegiance

Question 29

Which of the following countries regularly deals with the "resource curse"?

Accepted Answer

the Democratic Republic of Congo

Question 30

Which pair of forms of agriculture takes up the most space accross Earth's surface?

Accepted Answer

pastoral nomadism and shifting cultivation

Question 31

According to the UNLOS, how far out does the Exclusive Economic Zone go?

Accepted Answer

200 miles

Question 32

What do you call the periodic migration of herds between mountains and valleys?

Accepted Answer

transhumance

Question 33

Where would you be most likely to find acid deposition?

Accepted Answer

in the atmosphere above industrial regions

Question 34

Which of the following is a good example of ethnocentrism?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 35

What does it mean for a country to nationalize an industry?

Accepted Answer

the government takes control of the industry

Question 36

Kosovo trying to remove itself from Serbia because of ethnic conflict is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Balkanization

Question 37

Which of the following would NOT be an example of a country limiting access to popular culture?

Accepted Answer

freedom of the press

Question 38

The boundaries imposed by the British and French on the Middle East after WWI would exemplify..

Accepted Answer

superimposed boundaries

Question 39

Which of these requires either very fertile soil or lots of fertilizer to make use of?

Accepted Answer

double cropping

Question 40

Russia seizing control of the Crimean peninsula because it has ethnic Russians on it is

Accepted Answer

irredentism

Question 41

Hinduism would be considered what type of theism?

Accepted Answer

polytheism

Question 42

Who came up with Central Place theory, range, and threshold?

Accepted Answer

Christaller

Question 43

True of False: The United States has a unitary political system.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT a prevailing theory on world political influence?

Accepted Answer

Information Age Theory

Question 45

The ties or association that you have towards your particular culture is your...

Accepted Answer

cultural identity

APHG Final Vocab Review

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APHG Final Vocab Review

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